A Catholic girl's journey to accepting infertility and life without children.

Monday, May 18, 2009

What happens when your life crumbles??

Ever since I was a little girl, I had plans. Big plans. Plans for a big house, big family, a husband who adores me, a career that I love and children that loved me.

I carefully, built my house rock upon rock upon rock, only to realize on day that even though I had a beautiful house, a career that I love, rocks started to slip, the plans started to shift. And a rock fell away... slipping softly into the water surrounding it.

I had a choice. Drown in the upcoming river that surrounded my little rock garden, or learn to swim, learn to live on the rocks that I had left.

This blog is a journey .... my journey on the rocky road of accepting infertility....

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About Me

Who am I? I am the girl who quietly kneels in the pew behind the family with the children. The girl who earns and wishes for a child of her own. A girl whose prayers beg for an answer. The girl who hears God gently say no. The girl who knows the power and love of God.

Lady of La Leche

Lovely Lady of La Leche, most loving mother of the Child Jesus, and my Mother, listen to my humble prayer.Your motherly heart knows my every wish, my every need. To you only, His spotless Virgin Mother, has your Divine Son given to understand the sentiments which fill my soul.Yours was the sacred privilege of being the Mother of the Saviour. Intercede with Him now, my loving Mother, that, in accordance with His will, I may become the mother of other children of our heavenly Father.This I ask, O Lady of La Leche, in the Name of your Divine Son, My Lord and Redeemer. Amen.

Totus Tuus

Immaculate Conception, Mary, my Mother.Live in me. Act in me. Speak in and through me.Think your thoughts in my mind.Love, through my heart. Give me your dispositions and feelings. Teach, lead and guide me to Jesus.Correct, enlighten and expand my thoughts and behavior. Possess my soul. Take over my entire personality and life. Replace it with yourself.Incline me to constant adoration and thanksgiving.Pray in me and through me.Let me live in you and keep me in this union always.– Pope John Paul II

Petition to St. Anne

O glorious St. Anne, you are filled with compassion for those who invoke you and with love for those who suffer! Heavily burdened with the weight of my troubles, I cast myself at your feet and humbly beg of you to take this present intention which I recommend to your special care. (mention your petition) Please recommend it to your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and place it before the throne of Jesus, so that He may bring it to a happy issue. Continue to intercede for me until my request is granted. But above all, obtain for me the grace one day to see my God face to face, and with you and Mary and all the saints to praise and bless Him for all eternity. Amen.